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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MED FORD, OREOOX. THTJRSDAY. APRTTj 2. 1936L
Golden Rain
ey btiAarqartt CVlddemer
KYX0P8I8: Morgan Black
tonrtier in the houte ot Mlee Ella
hannlng, whole family ie impress
eive. but iehoee pocketbook i rather
Iran. Morgan and trie Lanning. '
Miee Ella7 beautiful and gifted
niece have eome to like each other
' enough to engage in a kind of
eoueinly wartare. Sow trie hae
atked Morgan to open an old trunk
in the attic, thinking that ehe may
find eomething in it that ehe can
mike over tor hereelf. And Morgan
itlly euggeete that perhape the trunk
cotitnine a dark myetery.
Chapter Seven
8UPPRISE
xjO," SAID Iris, "it's labeled, as
neatly as Aunt Ella always
loea, 'Jean's other things.' Of course
t may be just mine and Owen's baby
ilotheB."
"Owen?"
"I had a brother who died when
la was five and I was a year and
rwo months old, about the time
Mother died. I wish I remembered
her."
Morgan rose and pulled down bis
thick dark blue sweater. "Come on,
Iris, I'll do your Boy Scout deed."
They gained the enormous attic,
smelling delightfully like apples and
clothes and dry wood. Morgan fol
lowed Iris across the sounding
boards, far back under the eaves
till they both had to kneel. Under a
presents I ii... sot come t be Is
this trunk?'
"He doesn't know anything about
you, or want you, or he'd have
looked you up." Miss Ella was sud
denly transformed from the mouse
of i woman Morgan had known to
a Aery vindictive creatuio.
"That woman, Josle Ross, has
blm. Your mother left your father,
and took both of you. She went to
that creature, her sister. We got you
back; they hadn't any money then,
they couldn't fight. Your father
didn't want you told. So of course I
didn't tell you."
'You've done this to me all these
years 1 thought you loved me!" Iris
said passionately. "I've loved and
trusted you and Uncle William; and
you've kept me from knowing I bad
brother, you kept me from my
mother. How do I know you're tell
ing the truth?"
You can look In my scrapbook.
Her death notice Is In that," said
Miss Ella sullenly.
Let me see It!" Iris demanded. .
It's In the Sheraton desk In tb
dining room, the locked drawer.
Here's the key."
Iris quieted a lltUe. Her aunl
wouldn't say this If It weren't true.
I'M ASTONISHED at the waj
you're taking It," said Miss Ells
with Incredible reproving anger
"Why, I never had her," declared Iris.
half dozen boxes and a broken rock'
er was the trunk.
One movement of Morgan's strong
brown bands wrenched tbe hinges
off and Iris dipped avidly In, lift
ing out a large tissue-paper wrapped
bundle that lay by a large flat green
pasteboard box. She opened It.
"A doll!" she said. "A big beauti
ful French doll, perfectly new! Why,
I never had her, I swear I never
did!"
"That's queer. Try the box," Mor
gan said. She opened It
"This Is queerer still. It must be
my dress. But It's never been worn,
either none of these things have."
She tossed them over. Exquisitely
made, of- exquisite material, the
trunk held the summer and winter
wardrobes of a girl from two to five
years old. "I know I never had
them." ehe said again, bewildered,
and dug deeper,
Morgan, also exploring, dragged
up a couple of photographs. "Who
are these?" he asked. "Cousins?"
She took them from blm, and they
both stared down at them.
"They're my mother," she said,
"but It doesn't make sense."
'TpHE flrt was a girl, not unlike
1
Iris in build and carriage. A five-
year-old boy etood by her, the baby
Iris was In her arms. The names
underneath were Jean, Owen, Iris.
The second was of Jean tanning
taken throe years later. A taller,
darker, hnrder-looking young wo
man stood buhind her. The boy was
still there. He looked sbout eight.
Of Iris, no sign.
"They died when he was five. But
they're alive In that picture, and
he's eight. Morgan, what does It
monn?" she demandod.
Before ho could answer they heard
quick footsteps on the stairs. Miss
Ella ran over to them, her face
white and angry.
"What aro you doing In that
trunk?" she demanded harshly.
"Aunt Ella, whore are my mother
and little brolher? Where did all
these things come from?"
"Your mother'- dead. I told you."
Iris stood over her aunl relent
lessly. ."Is my broiher dead too? If my
mother's dead, how did all these
"Aa for William, It was all his fault.
He got tangled up with Josle Ross.
Of course they couldn't marry, be
cause your father needed your
uncle's help. I always suspected Jo
sle of throwing your mother Into
your father's way out of revenge be
cause she blamed ua for delaying
the marriage. And after your father
and mother married, she was alwaya
setting your mother up, saying your
father ought to earn money. Finally
your mother went in to Philadelphia
with Josephine and you children, to
get your father to follow her and
take a position there as an art In
structor. I saw to It that ha stayed
here and went on with his art!"
Miss Ella spoke as It all she had
done was entirely right, even noble.
Morgan, remembering the bad wool
ly pictures, patient overworked Wil
liam Lanning, shabby vivid dutiful
Iris, could only stare.
She finished quietly, "I came to
toll you that It's time tor you to set
the table," and went down the stairs
again.
Iris stood in the middle of the at
tic floor, flushed, tragic, beautiful.
"And I'm helpless!" she said.
"Poor old Uncle William's helpless.
We all are, because we haven't any
money. I have a brother somewhere
In the world, and I'm chained here,
making place-cards and teaching lit
tle girls singing, Instead of finding
blm! Even If I save and save, it will
be months and months before I have
enough to hire detectives and do all
the things people have to do. And
you ssy that money's nothing but
trouble."
Suddenly Morgan felt happy,
alive, as he had not since his world
had crashed around him. Here was
something he could do; here was a
real trouble, a real need. Here was
a girl, honest, helpless; here was
something, in a tangled, tricky
world, that he could put straight.
'Leave It to me, Iris," he said. "It
your brother Is anywhere In the civ-
lilted world I'll find him for you."
Her lovely, moody face lighted to
a dstzllng happiness. She threw her
arms round him; Morgan felt her
grateful Impulsive kiss on his lips.
(Ccf,r,tkt, lt!S !, M,r,,r,l VJ,rJ
Moroan dccldet, tomorrow, to
keep hi, failing tor Irli xcret
from hr.
GRAYSON PUTS NAME
ON COACH CONTRACT
TALO ALTO, CM. April 9. iff,
Bohby Ornyson. Stanford'! outi tid
ing fullback of the last three yerf.
put his name on the dotted line to
day and officially became a memonr
of C. E. "Tiny" Thornhlira footoall
coaching Ktflff
Borne doubt Orayaon would lgu
contract with the university had bean
raised In the last few riaya when It
became known he had been approach
ed with lucrative offera to play pru
fewinna football nrxt season.
WASHINGTON. April 3. V-Tho
National Orornphtc enclety announc
ed today Lincoln Claworti. Arctic and
Antarctic explorer, will be a war Jed
the Hubbard gold medal of the
clety by prtaiornt hxjwrlt, April IV
WINDOW OLA3S W aell trintvm
glass and will replace youi orokT.
window reasonably. .Trowbridge, Cab
Imt Works,
LABOR LEAGUE FORMED
AS AID TO ROOSEVELT
WASHINGTON. April 3. For
mation o! "Labor's Non-Partln
league " to work for PreMdent Roose
velt's re-election was announced to
day by Oeorge L. Berry, president ot
the Preeamen'a union and federal In
dustrial coordinator.
The .eaaue will have headquarters
hare. There will be no initiation f
or dues. Berry has asked every unit
of the American rederaMon ot La bo
and the railroad brotherhoods to jo.n
PI.
PORTLAND. April 3. 7P Hpc
grew today that the Interstate com
merce commission's approval of con
struction of the Oold Coast railroad
from Leland. Ore., to Port OrforU
might result in approval for a federal
breakwater Jetty in the Port Orford
harbor.
It was learned that Gilbert E. Gable
mayor of Port Orford and president
of the railway corporation, made In
quiries about the previously rejected
harbor Improvement project.
Appeals from the adverse report
which army engineers made severs 1
months sgo, following a preliminary
examination of the project, can be
made to the river and harbora boirrt
at Washington, D. C.
''The report now is In the hands
'of the river and harbors board ot
Washington," said Col. Mtlo P. Fix,
district U. 8. army engineer.
Buckingham's Ice Cream. Candy &
Party Specials The Crest. 230 S. Ceas
PILOT DE RENZO HURT
IN MILLS FIELD SMASH
SAN FRANCISCO. April 3. (Jf)
Amellb "Sandy" DeRenzo, 33, pilot for
Mrs. Warrington Dorst, wealthy Ath
erton social leader, was Injured Wed
nesday In an accident which wreckctj
Mrs. Dorst 's speedy new four-passenger
plane.
DeRenzo banked sharply, apparently
planning to land on Mills field frjm
the bay side. One wing dragged on a
mudflat, ground looping the shla.
The jjllot. conscious when taken from
the wreckage, was rushed to Mills
Memorial hospital.
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
For further proof address the author, Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. TJ. B. Fat Oft
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'TWAS
Just north of the equator, In the
neighborhood of five degrees north
latitude, the Pacific ocean extends
east to the coast of Columbia In
the northern part of South America
a point about as far east as Wash
ington, D. C. To tho west from that
point there la an uninterrupted ex
panse of water more than 10,000
miles to the East Indies.
Barbados Island. In the British
West Indira, la covered with a very
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shallow, yet very fertile, layer of
soil and, strange as It seems, this
soil Is not the Island's own earth.
It was blown there by the wind
Barbados la a rock formation, but
the 1 j land of St. Vincent, about 100
miles distant, supplied It with the
necessary soil by volcanic eruption.
That Island's eruptions blew count
less tons of fine, fertile, volcanic
ash Into the upper layers of the air
where they were carried by air cur
rents over Barbados and there de
posited. Millions of tons of this ash
fell on the island in 1003 alone.
The fame of Peter Stuyvesant,
Dutch colonial governor of New
York, persists largely because of his
famous wooden leg. Strange as it
seems, however, the historians of
the day failed to record for posterity
which leg it was that the governor
lost.. Sort; records say the left,
ethers the right; some pictures por
tray his left leg gone, others the
right as In the above drawing.
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